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Urethral swabs were examined for Chlamydia trachomatis in 22 women suffering from urethral syndrome and in an age-matched control group without genito-urinary symptoms. Füll urodynamic investigation was done in patients with urinary symptoms. In this group the isolation rate of C. trachomatis was significantly higher than in the control group (59% versus 13%,P < 0.01). Therefore C. trachomatis must be considered as one of the possible causes of the female urethral syndrome. Five out of eight patients with positive culture who were treated with minocycline had a negative follow-up culture and the clinical results of this treatment were variable.
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Weil, A., Gaudenz, R., Burgener, L. et al. Isolation of chlamydia trachomatis from women with urethral syndrome. Arch. Gynecol. 230, 329–333 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02199682
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